prof.dr.ir. D. Lutters (Eric)

Being educated as a Mechanical Engineer while having an keen interest in product design, I teach subjects related to product development as the linking pin between design and (production) engineering. This ranges from production techniques & systems, via design methodology to information management and virtual reality. I'm quite involved in the BSc. and MSc. programmes Industrial Design Engineering. For the MSc. programme, I coordinate the track 'Management of Product Development' (MoPD). Next to being interested in the content of the programmes, I am also very interested in educational methods and educational innovations.

My research interest is in Information driven Product Development & Engineering - because I firmly believe that the value of the information content by far exceeds the significance of processes as the pacer of development cycles. With our group, we therefore aim to engender tools and techniques for design support, bringing together topics like Virtual Reality, Digital Twins/Prototypes/Masters, sustainability, (non-deterministic) decision making and uncertainty in development cycles.

At the Fraunhofer Innovation Platform at the University of Twente, I am a member of the steering board, and I'm also involved in a number of research projects at the FPC, focusing on Industry 4.0, Digital Twins, Virtual Dashboards and VR/AR solutions.

I am a fellow of CIRP, the International Academy for Production Research; within CIRP I am active in the Scientific Technical Committee on Design and currently I'm chairperson of the overarching STC assembly.

Next to my work in Twente, I am a professor extraordinary at the department Industrial Engineering at the University of Stellenbosch, South-Africa.

Engineering & Materials Science

# Decision Making
# Digital Twin
# Industry
# Life Cycle
# Packaging
# Product Design
# Product Development
# Twinning

Faculty of Engineering Technology (ET), Information-driven Product Development & Engineering (IdPDE)

PAO Techniek en Management
Board member PAO Techniek en Management (PAOTM)
Stellenbosch University; department Industrial Engineering
Professor extraordinary

Arnaoutis, V. , Rosic, B. V. , & Lutters, E. (2023). Automated design evolution for parametric design applied on computer-aided welding fixture designs. Procedia CIRP, 119, 999-1004. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2023.03.143

Damgrave, R. , Slot, M., van der Worp, L. , & Lutters, E. (2023). A digital twinning reference model to facilitate multi-stakeholder decision-making. Procedia CIRP, 119, 315-320. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2023.02.138

de Koeijer, B. , de Lange, J. , & Lutters, E. (2023). A reference model for a sustainable commitment to sustainability in packaging development. Procedia CIRP, 116, 720-725. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2023.02.121

Lutters, E. , & Damgrave, R. (2023). Accuracy in Digital Twinning; An Exploration Based on Asset Location. In Smart, Sustainable Manufacturing in an Ever-Changing World: Proceedings of International Conference on Competitive Manufacturing (COMA ’22) (pp. 191-202). (Lecture Notes in Production Engineering; Vol. Part F1162). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15602-1_15

Damgrave, R. G. J. , & Lutters, E. (2022). Simultaneous multi-stakeholder digital twinning for anticipated production environments. Paper presented at 8th International Conference on Competitive Manufacturing, COMA 2022, Stellenbosch, South Africa.

Thiede, S. , Damgrave, R. G. J. , & Lutters, E. (2022). Mixed reality towards environmentally sustainable manufacturing: overview, barriers and design recommendations. Procedia CIRP, 105, 308-313. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2022.02.051

Nassehi, A., Colledani, M., Kádár, B. , & Lutters, E. (2022). Daydreaming factories. CIRP annals : manufacturing technology, 71(2), 671-692. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cirp.2022.05.002

Zwier, M. , Lutters, E. , & Gommer, L. (2022). Project based learning and reflection in a manufacturing environment. In M. S. Gudjonsdottir, H. Audunsson, A. M. Donoso, G. Kristjansson, I. Saemundsdottir, J. T. Foley, M. Kyas, A. Sripakagorn, J. Roslof, J. Bennedsen, K. Edstrom, N. Kuptasthien, & R. Lyng (Eds.), 18th CDIO International Conference, CDIO 2022: Proceedings - Full Papers (pp. 539-550). (Proceedings of the International CDIO Conference; Vol. 2022). Reykjavík University.

Lutters, E., Massa, J. , Damgrave, R. , Thiede, S. , & Gommer, L. (2022). Integration of learning and research in a multi-perspective learning factory. In M. S. Gudjonsdottir, H. Audunsson, A. M. Donoso, G. Kristjansson, I. Saemundsdottir, J. T. Foley, M. Kyas, A. Sripakagorn, J. Roslof, J. Bennedsen, K. Edstrom, N. Kuptasthien, & R. Lyng (Eds.), 18th CDIO International Conference, CDIO 2022: Proceedings - Full Papers (pp. 551-562). (Proceedings of the International CDIO Conference; Vol. 2022). Reykjavík University.

Slot, M. C. , Damgrave, R. G. J., Fraikin, M. , & Lutters, E. (2022). Digital infrastructures as the basis for implementing digital twinning. Procedia CIRP, 109, 568-573. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2022.05.296

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